No. 4 Brian Free, a 5-foot-8 guard from Greensboro, North Carolina, and a graduate student at NWOSU, was named GAC Player of the Week for men’s basketball. This was the first player honor for the team this year. He scored 29 points in one game last week and 23 in the other. Photo by Athletic Communications. For the fifth time this season and the second week in a row, Faith Simpson, a 6-foot-2 senior from Palisade, Nebraska, took GAC Player of the Week for women’s basketball. She was the top scorer in both games for the Lady Rangers last week, putting up 27 in the first game and 30 in the second. Photo by Kayleigh Rauch. Carson Wright, #31, a 6-foot-1 outfielder from Bellevue, Nebraska, batted .500 in the season-opening series last weekend, hit three home runs, drove in three runs and scored five runs. His performance earned him the first GAC Player of the Week for the Ranger baseball team. Photo by Athletic Communications. Post navigation Season opens for softball this weekend Men, women win at home